Phantom Holocaust, The: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe (Jewish Cultures of the World)
by Olga Gershenson
The Films of Freddie Francis (The Scarecrow Filmmakers)
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Postfeminist Biopic, The: Narrating the Lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen
by Bronwyn Polaschek
Honed by the author's 35 years of teaching, this advanced book offers different warm-up exercises concentrating on the actor's sense of smell, sound, sight, and touch; sensory tools for conveying the climate and environment of the text; tips for suggesting a character's physical conditions; and much more. Individual exercises will help actors to free the voice and body, create a character, find the action and condition of scenes, and explore the subconscious for effective emotional recall. Reade...
Hollywood in the Information Age (Texas Film Studies)
by Professor Janet Wasko
Hollywood, movies, and the silver screen were once synonymous, but sweeping changes in the film industry over the last two decades have revolutionized everything from film distribution (video, network TV, cable and pay-cable) to marketing and spin-offs (toys, games, books, theme park rides) to ownership and control of the major studios. This wide-ranging book delves into all these areas to offer a major new assessment of the filmed entertainment industry as it positions itself for the twenty-fir...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Rethinking British cinema)
by Sue Harper
Minerva's Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures
by Monroe C Beardsley Professor of Philosophy Noel Carroll
Gerade Goethes Faust eignet sich als Vorlage fur Hollywoodfilme. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um Adaptionen und Transformationen der Thematik, nicht um direkte UEbernahmen. Grunde dafur liegen u. a. in den unterschiedlichen politischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Situationen, die das Deutschland der Goethezeit und das moderne Amerika kennzeichnen. Doch wie schon im Faust zahlen heute die positive Aufloesung des Konfliktes und eine Liebesbeziehung zu den Bestandteilen eines modernen Hol...